If we’d won I was going to stop calling the email the #5and5 and turn it into the #6and4 because more good things happen under a Labor Government.
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This was a week when the contrast couldn't be greater. Bill Shorten ready to lead, Scott Morrison ready to shout.
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The Senate team led a lot of the news reports this week with some extraordinary work in Senate Estimates. The questioning of the Federal Police, Foreign Affairs, and Finance kept exposing more and more failings by the Government. And each new piece of evidence gathered in the Senate found its way straight to the floor of the House of Reps.
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It wasn't only the first week back for 2019. It wasn't only the beginning of just 10 sitting days in an eight-month period. This was the week that we had the shortest constitutional crisis in history and the longest Question Time in history. Here’s the 5and5.
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Remember last week I hinted that this week could be even worse than last week? Here’s the #5and5
Will we ever get to the worst possible week for this Government? There’s an old Hopkins poem “No worst, there is none.”
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The week began with Parliament at its best. And finished with, well, Parliament being Parliament.
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This was the week to find out what happens when the advertising guy is put in charge of the nation. Mess. Chaos. Madness. Call it what you want.
I’ve skipped the attacks the Libs made on the Libs and the Nats made on other Nats. If I included their division this email would go forever. So here’s the rest of the week we just had in Parliament.
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Monday seems such a long time ago. The politics of this week has been covered everywhere and I’ll still go through much of it.
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It feels like this week began a year ago. Maybe two. Every couple of hours everything kept changing. As best as I can, here’s the #5and5 best and worst events of the week in Parliament.
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Ok. Normally this is the best and worst of the week. But this week involved the best and worst of the Parliament itself. Here’s the #5and5.
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We were told this would be the week when the Government put its full $80 billion handout to big business to a vote in the Senate. But I won’t tell you how the vote went because like most predictions from the Government, it never happened.
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Parliament is back again next week for the final session before the winter break.
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The Reps only sat for three days this week and Senate Estimates went for four. Here’s my summary of the best and worst of the week in Parliament.
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The debate started on the Budget and it was one of the most effective weeks of Senate Estimates I’ve ever seen. Here’s my summary of the week in Parliament.
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There’s a rhythm to Budget week each year. Here’s the 5and5.
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A lot of people have approached me over the past few weeks saying they read the email but noticed I haven’t been quite as upbeat lately.
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One of the longest-serving MPs in the Caucus told me on Wednesday that this is the worst he’s ever seen the Parliament.
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Yes, there was a lot this week about the crisis in the Government between the PM and his Deputy Barnaby Joyce. But that’s not all that happened. Here’s the #5and5:
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